After receiving Ph.D. in Fine Art History from Harvard University (1996) Gauvin Bailey taught undergraduate and graduate students in Early, High, and Late Italian Renaissance art, Baroque art, and Latin American art at Clark University, Boston University, and Boston College. In addition, he curated/co-curated and served as a consultant on museum exhibitions on Italian Renaissance and Baroque, Latin American, and Asian art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, the Philadelphia Museum, the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, and the Worcester Art Museum, among others.
Bailey just completed two new books: The Andean Hybrid Baroque: Convergent Cultures in the Churches of Colonial Peru (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010), a study of colonial architecture in Southern Peru and Bolivia that combines indigenous iconography and symbolism with that of Catholicism and the International Baroque, and Baroque & Rococo, a thematic survey of art and architecture in Europe, Latin America, and Asia from 1570-1780 (Phaidon Press Limited, expected 2011). He is currently working on a new book for Ashgate Publishing Limited called Spiritual Rococo: Décor and Divinity from the Salons of Paris to the Missions of Paraguay on the impact of a theology of "happiness" in French and Iberian literature on the proliferation of Rococo arts and architecture not only in France, Italy and Central Europe but also in present-day Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Paraguay.
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